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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Reaser

I’ve stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn’t trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I’ve studied it enough.

3 December 2020 Clive Owen

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

3 December 2020 John Updike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

3 December 2020 Alex Meraz

It’s like this – because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I’ve been.

3 December 2020 Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

3 December 2020 Roseanne Barr

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job.

3 December 2020 Orson Welles

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

3 December 2020 Leighton Meester

It’s wonderful to be in love. And it’s definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it’s OK if you don’t find him and you’re 24. You can find it someday.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

3 December 2020 Roland Gift

Our managers hadn’t had that kind of success – the record company hadn’t, we hadn’t – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn’t it would be some kind of failure.

3 December 2020 Shaun Cassidy

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

I don’t know why someone else’s marriage has anything to do with me.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

3 December 2020 Martin Yan

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

3 December 2020 Germaine Greer

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

3 December 2020 Jurgen Habermas

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

3 December 2020 Anthony Kiedis

I think people that have fear that, ‘Oh if I have a kid I won’t be able to do this and I won’t be able to do that.’ It’s kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

3 December 2020 China Mieville

I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

3 December 2020 David Frum

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

3 December 2020 Carlos Ghosn

Design is important, it’s an important dimension in the car. It’s not the only one.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

3 December 2020 Theodor Herzl

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers’ pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

3 December 2020 Fritz Sauckel

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

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